Ecstatic Dance Oakland: Featuring Jagua

Ecstatic Dance Oakland is back under new stewardship at Sweets Ballroom: Wednesday evening schedule: 6:45pm - Doors Open 7:00pm - Blindfolded Contact Improv w/ Gabriel Diamond & Candice Dawn + Yoga w/ Satya Gita 7:45pm - Opening Circle 8:00pm - Ecstatic Dance w/ Jagua 10:15pm - Sound Bath / Closing Meditation ~ Food Service & Cacao 8pm to 10:30pm by Leela Maya of Sacred Decadence + Tea Lounge by Aless Shanti ~ Sweets Ballroom 1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA BART: 19th St. BART Parking: *Secured Covered Parking: Dalziel Garage 250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612 Tickets: Available at the door with Cash / Venmo $25 Drop-In $20 Passes sold in 5 packs Volunteer Opportunity: Please email us at [email protected] Jagua once known as "3rd Eye Warrior" a name that carried me through the rhythms of the past. Now, a new path, one woven with new sounds, new styles, and new skills. Like the serpent shedding its skin, this transformation is an evolution, a deeper journey into the spirit of music. Born under the desert sky of Las Vegas, I bring forth the heartbeat of the Earth, blending the ancient with the future. My music is a bridge between worlds~where tribal rhythms, ecstatic dance, hip hop, electronic beats, mantra, and acoustic storytelling become one. Merging with the drums, flute, guitar, and didgeridoo, I weave sound into ceremony. My journey has brought new gifts as well as old that have been hidden—scratching, live mixing, and deep sonic storytelling—turning each set into a living, breathing experience. Bass lines rumble like distant thunder, tribal percussion calls the ancestors, and melodies dance like fire in the night. This is more than music. This is a prayer in motion. A dance between the seen and unseen. Will you walk it with me? www.spiritspeaks.info/Jagua Blindfolded Contact Dance is a slow and gentle experience—for both beginners and experienced dancers alike. The constraint of the blindfold invites dancers to explore other senses to find connection, expression, pleasure, and safety. About Candice Holdorf & Gabriel Diamond Candice is a writer and coach with a focus on reclaiming erotic embodiment through exploring shame and shadow. She brings her passion for movement, play, and creative self-expression to her work as a group facilitator. She has trained in various healing modalities such as yoga and orgasmic meditation as well as studied Alexander Technique and theatrical movement while getting her BFA at NYU. theorgasmiclife.com Gabriel is a long-time dancer who has practiced many modalities of conscious movement. He has developed a passion for exploring how blindfolds can be be used as a medicine and tool for transcending biases, cravings, and aversions. His work as an artist explores the intersection of activism, street theatre, shadow work, and embodiment. He is the co-founder of Vulnerable Rally. He is a filmmaker by trade with a background in theatre. https://www.blindfoldedcontact.com/ About Satya Gita: My knowledge, capacities and realizations are influenced by many years of yoga study and practice, as well as my extensive spiritual training as a Diamond Approach™ teacher and as a Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Born in Oslo and raised in Trondheim Norway, I started dancing when I was five years old, then studied dance at The London Contemporary Dance School and on Africa’s Ivory Coast, rooting into my own embodiment, before moving to New York to study dance and teach yoga at Jivamukti. I was also certified at the Integral Yoga Institute and have trained in Somatic Experiencing and practice a number of bodywork techniques, including craniosacral and shiatsu. A dedicated student of The Diamond Approach™ for more than 20 years, I have been ordained as a Diamond Heart teacher and utilize these wisdom practices in my work as a spiritual counselor and teacher. I have spent much time in study, retreat and meditation on spiritual psychology, mystic literature and the work of AH Almaas. In my work as a spiritual counselor and in my own spiritual practice, I use the Diamond Approach™ to embodied inquiry, a potent practice that helps us to feel and metabolize historical imprints as well as experience the vast and mystical reality—to learn how to be both infinite and intimate. From the time of my childhood in Norway, where I lived in kinship with the mountains and fjords, my spiritual practice has been deeply rooted in the natural world, and I have further deepened my communion with wild nature and the dialectic with inner nature through study with John Davis and Meredith Little at the School of Lost Borders. I currently offer wilderness retreats and daylongs in embodied earth wisdom that draw on these influences, and on a lifetime of deep communion with the natural world. https://satyaaune.com/ Sacred Decadence Cacao & Spell Food Leela Maya started her journey as a raw vegan dessert chef in 2007 at Cafe Gratitude. It was working there that she discovered the power of intention, community, & how truly nourishing food felt like sensual kitchen witch craft for her soul. It was love at first bite. She has also developed products for Urban Remedy and Good Earth Natural Foods in Marin. Leela is delighted to be sharing her culinary creations as sacred service to the vitality, health, and well being of all. Order your next special event dessert or batch of cacao from Leela; birthday cakes, wedding cakes, and for private events. In addition to her kitchen craft, Leela is a practicing Acolyte Priestess of Isis and ceremonialist, offering Full & New Moon Circles, and Cacao Ceremonies, using improv, astrology, tarot, and the power of play. She believes that love, joy, connection, and play are key ingredients to a healthy happy life. Blessed Be and Bon Appétit! 💗🌱🥑🫐❤️ @LeelaMayaMagic @SacreDecadence www.LeelaMayaMagic.com About Aless Shanti: Alessandra/Aless, is a dancer, yogini, tea amateur and cacao passionate! She often starts her day with a cup of tea. From Puer to herbal infusions, she appreciates the medicine of plants. When she sits for her meditation or movement practice, a cup of tea guides her to focus and be present. She enjoys serving tea, having conversations and creating a cosy space. During her travels all around the world she had the opportunity and interest to learn about medicinal plants and tea. She is continuously learning and humbled by the culture of tea in China and Japan. Alessandra loves crafting herbal blends combining medicinal properties in tea, but above all, she is a passionate chocolate maker! Her recent creation, La Gourmande, delicious raw cacao truffles, pair divinely with tea. Both tea herbal blends and cacao truffles are available for purchase. With her open heart, she will be serving tea every Wednesdays nights. Here is my Facebook page for my chocolates : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571863295250